Authorities and health workers say five people remain in hospital following the attack on a Quebec City mosque Sunday night.
Six people between the ages of 35 and 70 died during the attack at the Centre Cultural Islamique de Quebec in the city’s Ste-Foy neighbourhood
A spokeswoman at the Laval University Hospital says two of the five wounded will need surgery while the other three are stable and may be discharged soon,
Thirteen others have been released.
Police arrested two men Sunday night but now say only one of them is a suspect in the attack.
Worshippers at the mosque’s evening prayers say two gunmen dressed in black and wearing ski masks entered the building the started shooting shortly before 8 p.m.
Mohammed Yangui, the mosque president, said the attackers walked in on the ground floor of the mosque where men pray and also went to the second floor.
“It seemed to me that they had a Québécois accent,” another witness who declined to be identified told Radio Canada. “They started to fire, and as they shot, they yelled, ‘Allahu akbar!’ The bullets hit people that were praying. People who were praying lost their lives. A bullet passed right over my head.
“There were even kids. There was even a three-year-old who was with his father,” the witness said.
The investigation is being handled by a combined team of investigators from the RCMP, the Quebec Provincial Police and the Montreal police service.
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